Posted by Agnes Iley , Saturday, December 4, 2010 9:23 AM
Stage 5 Coloured stitches
One not so primary colour…
This exercise called for a black background and 2 primary colours….
The black background was no problem. But after searching high and low I only managed to find one primary colour in my small stash of embroidery threads.
And there was no way I would make it before closing time to the nearest craft shop anytime soon…..hmmm. I decided to work with what I had and use red and green.
There are subtle changes in tone and brightness depending if the stitched areas are nearer each other or further apart. The most interesting effect however is in the other ring, where a line of red stitches is sandwiched in between two lines of green stitches. Every time I glance at it sideways it appears as if there is an ochre colour there. Now of all the colours I expected ochre was not one of them!
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